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- Well the 148th Fighter Wing
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deployed here to the 2019
Frisian Flag exercise.
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We took 10 jets, and around 180 personnel
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to participate in the
Frisian Flag exercise.
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We flew around about 150 sordes,
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which equated to a little
over 200 flying hours.
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Had an opportunity to
get some maintainers,
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some opportunities on some training
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and maintenance of the aircraft,
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along with the operators getting a sordes
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with multiple nations here
participating in that.
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Well it's a good opportunity
to represent America here.
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You know, not only are we representing
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the United States Airforce,
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but the Air National Guard
and Duluth, Minnesota.
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So it's a good opportunity to come here
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and meet a lot of different people
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and learn and share some
different ways of doing business,
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and it's just nice to
be able to represent us,
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and kind of collectively
work in an environment
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where there's a whole lot
of nations working together,
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and share some good stories,
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and some meals and some crosstalk.
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Yeah, the Dutch were great.
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They were very accommodating
when we rolled in here
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with our aircraft and our
equipment and our people,
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and it's a top notch organization.
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They have a liaison that assisted us
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getting our equipment and aircraft parked
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and ready to hit the ground
running with this exercise.
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So they've been nothing but accommodating
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and a very good group
of people to work with.
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Well, I think there's a
larger scale exercise here
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obviously with the amount
of aircraft in the airspace,
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so that's quite different.
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Duluth, you know, we fly our normal
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stordy turn pattern there
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and here it's much more integrated with
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a whole more more nations
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and a whole lot more aircraft.
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So that's the big difference.
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Well it was great to see
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all the different airframes
from the different nations.
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You know, we had the Euro
Fighter and the Mirage,
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and f18's from the other nations,
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so a lot of the maintainers
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were able to go meet the
maintainers of that jet
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and crawl around it,
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and a jet's a jet however the uniqueness
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of the other organizations
and how they operate.
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It was pretty cool.